AFOSI officials seeks special agent candidates

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The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is seeking exceptional non-commissioned officers for duty as enlisted special agents.

The AFOSI mission is to identify, exploit and neutralize criminal, terrorist and intelligence threats to the Air Force, Department of Defense and U.S. Government.

With more than 2,900 members, AFOSI has been the Air Force's major investigative service since Aug. 1, 1948. AFOSI provides criminal investigations and counterintelligence services to commanders of all Air Force activities.

All new AFOSI special agent candidates attend training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga. The candidates must complete both the 11-week Criminal Investigator Training Program and six weeks of AFOSI agency-specific coursework. Both courses offer training in firearms and other weapons, defensive tactics, forensics, surveillance and surveillance detection, antiterrorism techniques, crime scene processing, interrogations and interviews, court testimony, and military and federal law.

After successful completion of a one-year probationary period, some agents receive specialized training in economic crime, antiterrorism service, counterintelligence, computer crimes and other sophisticated criminal investigative capabilities. Others attend 12 weeks of technical training to acquire electronic, photographic and other skills required to perform technical surveillance countermeasures.

For more information about AFOSI's mission, visit the AFOSI public website at www.osi.andrews.af.mil. NCOs interested in learning more about becoming an AFOSI agent should review the applicant website at www.osi.andrews.af.mil/join/enlisted/index.asp and then contact their local AFOSI detachment